{"id":64626,"date":"2019-02-09T20:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=64626"},"modified":"2019-02-09T20:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:58:36","slug":"how-bauchi-gov-abubakar-diverted-n400billion-using-ghost-workers-dogara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/how-bauchi-gov-abubakar-diverted-n400billion-using-ghost-workers-dogara\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bauchi Gov, Abubakar diverted N400billion using ghost workers – Dogara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker of the House of Representatives,\u00a0 Hon Yakubu Dogara,\u00a0 has
\nuncovered massive fraud and theft perpetrated by Bauchi State government
\nunder Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar to the tune of N400billion from
\nMay 2015 when he assumed office to date.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a campaign rally in Dass, headquarters of Dass local
\ngovernment area on Friday, Hon Dogara presented documented evidence to a
\nmammoth crowd of his constituents showing how thousands of non-existent
\npeople were said to have been employed in 2015 shortly after the governor
\ncame into office.<\/p>\n

The Speaker challenged Governor Abubakar to take him to court and promised
\nthat he will defend the allegations and added that as a lawyer he knows
\nthe law and would not level false allegations against anyone if he does
\nnot have evidence.<\/p>\n

A perusal of one of the documents indicates that not fewer than 1,200
\npeople were said to have been employed and added into the state’s payroll
\nbeginning from July 2015.<\/p>\n

However, one of the ghost employees by name, Bappale Adamu, was said to
\nhave been born in 1899, which is 120 years ago and started work with the
\nBauchi state government on July 24, 2015\u00a0 and will retire from the service
\nin 2023.<\/p>\n

Another startling revelation showed that all the 1,200 workers, though
\nhave different names and dates of birth, have the same Bank Verification
\nNumber (BVN), meaning that their entire salary was being paid into one and
\nsame bank account under different names.<\/p>\n

The salaries vary from N39,000 to N86,000 and above.<\/p>\n

The speaker also wondered how Bauchi State monthly salary skyrocketed from
\nN2.6 billion per month in May 2015 to N7 billion without recruitment of
\nadditional workers, especially as the governor had early in his
\nadministration, fired thousands of political appointees engaged by former
\ngovernor Isa Yuguda, which should have reduced the state’s wage bill
\ndrastically.<\/p>\n

He also accused the governor of diverting billions of local government
\nfunds in the last 3 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n

The Speaker also recalled how the governor\u00a0 chased away contractors
\nrenovating Dass Central Mosque but failed to renovate it after repeated
\npromises and\u00a0 revealed how he personally paid for the renovation of the
\nmosque.<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that the Bauchi state Government had owed workers
\nmore than one year salaries following series of verifications allegedly to
\nremove ghost workers from the state\u2019s payroll by the present
\nadministration at its inception in 2015, but sadly, shortly after that,
\nthe monthly salary bill increased from N2.6 billion to about N7 billion.<\/p>\n

In August 2016, political leaders and stakeholders from the state led by
\nthe Speaker sought President Mohammadu Buhari\u2019s intervention on the
\nnon-payment of salaries which didn\u2019t yield any result and has been the
\nmajor source of disagreement between the Speaker, political leaders,
\nstakeholders and the Bauchi state Governor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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